The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for the Open Invention Network and a member of the Ispirits expert group on software patents, to discuss the issue of software patenting, the effects this can have on society, as well as the specific guidelines issues by the IPO.

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USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen #rolfclaessen
I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first official Patent Office in the US – more than 50 years after the first patent was handsigned by then president George Washington in 1790. Today, the USPTO has over 12,000 employees and receives over 600,000 patent applications and more than 500,000 trademark applications each year.
http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOFY15PAR.pdf
So, what can you do on the website:
You can search for patents: you hover over "Patents", then click on "Patent Search", and then you click on "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
If you choose "Basic Search", you can choose the field, e.g. "Inventor Name", type in any name and then get a list of all patents, where this person was inventor. Make sure to use a semicolon between the last and the first name.
You can search for trademarks: you hover over "Trademarks" and then click on "Searching Trademarks". Then you click on the link "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)". In the basic search you can enter any trademark name and it will show you all trademarks with that name:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
You can inspect the online file, i.e. the whole correspondence between the USPTO and the applicants by searching for a trademark as described above and then clicking on TSDR or directly going to
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/check-status-view-documents
The same can be done for patents here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
You can file patents online here
http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/about-efs-web
And you can file trademarks online here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-online
However, I strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a patent attorney or trademark attorney to help you with filing these IP rights.
Related channels: USPTOvideo, EPOfilms
ContactRolf Claessen at http://www.freischem.eu
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You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

published:16 Feb 2016

views:210

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
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My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition against European Patents is the least expensive way to attack granted European Patents. The alternative – if you miss the 9 month deadline after mention of the grant – would be to file nullity actions in all countries, where the patent has been granted.
When filing the opposition, the patent and the opponent must be clearly identified. Also the grounds for the opposition must be given and should be as detailed as possible. The grounds for opposition could be:
- unallowable amendments,
- lack of disclosure,
- lack of novelty,
- lack of inventive step,
- lack of industrial applicability, and
- exceptions from patentability.
After the opposition has been filed, the patent proprietor gets a chance to submit his arguments typically within 4 months and then the opposition division will send a summons to oral proceedings including a preliminary opinion. The date for oral proceedings is typically scheduled within a year of the original filing of the opposition and the parties get another chance to submit arguments one month before oral proceedings. Parties sometimes submit additional arguments especially before the summons to oral proceedings. However, in my opinion and experience, this only delays the proceedings and does not really help the end result.
As mentioned in the beginning, I have downloaded the details of over 10.000 opposition proceedings into a database and analyzed these oppositions. I will go into more details in future videos, but some interesting findings for you here in this video:
If the priority country is Japan, the patent is revoked in 32% of all cases. If the priority country is the US, the patent is revoked in 40% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is up to 10, the opposition is rejected in 22 to 23% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is larger than 20, the opposition is rejected only in 14% of all cases. If there are more than 20 claims, the opposition is rejected only in 17% of all cases – a lot of claims do not seem to help.
If you are new to this channel and want to learn more about patents, trademarks and designs, please subscribe to my channel. If you found this video helpful, please hit like. Leave your comments and questions below this video. And – as always – protect your intellectual property and go make it count!
About Rolf Claessen
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany in many technical fields.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of NanoscaleScience and Engineering as well as the ChemistryDepartment, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights. His expertise in patent prosecution encompasses a deep understanding of patent law, prior art searches, prosecuting patent applications, patent drafting, opposition and defending against competitors. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
Contact Rolf at
Dr. Rolf Claessen
Patent Attorneys Freischem
Salierring 47 - 53 (12th floor)
D-50677 Cologne
GermanyTelephone: +49 (221) 270 5770
Facsimile: +49 (221) 27057710
http://www.freischem.eu
Legalese and Disclaimer
You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

Office

An office is generally a room or other area where administrative work is done, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term "office" may refer to business-related tasks. In legal writing, a company or organization has offices in any place that it has an official presence, even if that presence consists of, for example, a storage silo rather than an office. An office is an architectural and design phenomenon; whether it is a small office such as a bench in the corner of a small business of extremely small size (see small office/home office), through entire floors of buildings, up to and including massive buildings dedicated entirely to one company. In modern terms an office usually refers to the location where white-collar workers are employed. As per James Stephenson,"Office is that part of business enterprise which is devoted to the direction and co-ordination of its various activities."

European Patent Office

The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the Organisation while the Administrative Council acts as its supervisory body as well as, to a limited extent, its legislative body. The actual legislative power to revise the European Patent Convention lies with the Contracting States themselves when meeting at a Conference of the Contracting States.

Within the European Patent Office, examiners are in charge of studying European patent applications, filed by applicants, in order to decide whether to grant a patent for an invention. The patents granted by the European Patent Office are called European patents.

Function, status and location

The European Patent Office (EPO) grants European patents for the Contracting States to the European Patent Convention. The EPO provides a single patent grant procedure, but not a single patent from the point of view of enforcement. Hence the patents granted are not European Union patents or even Europe-wide patents, but a bundle of national patents. Besides granting European patents, the EPO is also in charge of establishing search reports for national patent applications on behalf of the patent offices of Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, San Marino, and Turkey.

How the Patent Office is Intent on Killing Innovation in India?

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for the Open Invention Network and a member of the Ispirits expert group on software patents, to discuss the issue of software patenting, the effects this can have on society, as well as the specific guidelines issues by the IPO.

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Family Guy - "Albert Einstein worked for the patent office"

Family Guy - "Albert Einstein worked for the patent office"

Family Guy - "Albert Einstein worked for the patent office"

From the episode "The king is dead".
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6:41

USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office - US Patent Office #rolfclaessen

USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office - US Patent Office #rolfclaessen

USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office - US Patent Office #rolfclaessen

USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen #rolfclaessen
I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first official Patent Office in the US – more than 50 years after the first patent was handsigned by then president George Washington in 1790. Today, the USPTO has over 12,000 employees and receives over 600,000 patent applications and more than 500,000 trademark applications each year.
http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOFY15PAR.pdf
So, what can you do on the website:
You can search for patents: you hover over "Patents", then click on "Patent Search", and then you click on "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
If you choose "Basic Search", you can choose the field, e.g. "Inventor Name", type in any name and then get a list of all patents, where this person was inventor. Make sure to use a semicolon between the last and the first name.
You can search for trademarks: you hover over "Trademarks" and then click on "Searching Trademarks". Then you click on the link "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)". In the basic search you can enter any trademark name and it will show you all trademarks with that name:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
You can inspect the online file, i.e. the whole correspondence between the USPTO and the applicants by searching for a trademark as described above and then clicking on TSDR or directly going to
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/check-status-view-documents
The same can be done for patents here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
You can file patents online here
http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/about-efs-web
And you can file trademarks online here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-online
However, I strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a patent attorney or trademark attorney to help you with filing these IP rights.
Related channels: USPTOvideo, EPOfilms
ContactRolf Claessen at http://www.freischem.eu
Keywords: US Patent Office, PatentsTrademarksPatent AttorneyIntellectual PropertyHowtoTutorialPatentTrademarkUSPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office Search Patents Patent SearchSearch Trademarks Trademark SearchUSPTO Patent USPTO Trademark USPTO Patent Search USPTO Trademark Search Filing Patents Online Filing Trademarks Online How to File Patents Online#9How to File Trademarks Online How to Search for US Patents How to Search for US Trademarks#1Rolf Claessen USPTOvideo
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You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

The Patent Office and China:130 Years of Advocacy and Engagement

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen
My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition against European Patents is the least expensive way to attack granted European Patents. The alternative – if you miss the 9 month deadline after mention of the grant – would be to file nullity actions in all countries, where the patent has been granted.
When filing the opposition, the patent and the opponent must be clearly identified. Also the grounds for the opposition must be given and should be as detailed as possible. The grounds for opposition could be:
- unallowable amendments,
- lack of disclosure,
- lack of novelty,
- lack of inventive step,
- lack of industrial applicability, and
- exceptions from patentability.
After the opposition has been filed, the patent proprietor gets a chance to submit his arguments typically within 4 months and then the opposition division will send a summons to oral proceedings including a preliminary opinion. The date for oral proceedings is typically scheduled within a year of the original filing of the opposition and the parties get another chance to submit arguments one month before oral proceedings. Parties sometimes submit additional arguments especially before the summons to oral proceedings. However, in my opinion and experience, this only delays the proceedings and does not really help the end result.
As mentioned in the beginning, I have downloaded the details of over 10.000 opposition proceedings into a database and analyzed these oppositions. I will go into more details in future videos, but some interesting findings for you here in this video:
If the priority country is Japan, the patent is revoked in 32% of all cases. If the priority country is the US, the patent is revoked in 40% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is up to 10, the opposition is rejected in 22 to 23% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is larger than 20, the opposition is rejected only in 14% of all cases. If there are more than 20 claims, the opposition is rejected only in 17% of all cases – a lot of claims do not seem to help.
If you are new to this channel and want to learn more about patents, trademarks and designs, please subscribe to my channel. If you found this video helpful, please hit like. Leave your comments and questions below this video. And – as always – protect your intellectual property and go make it count!
About Rolf Claessen
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany in many technical fields.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of NanoscaleScience and Engineering as well as the ChemistryDepartment, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights. His expertise in patent prosecution encompasses a deep understanding of patent law, prior art searches, prosecuting patent applications, patent drafting, opposition and defending against competitors. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
Contact Rolf at
Dr. Rolf Claessen
Patent Attorneys Freischem
Salierring 47 - 53 (12th floor)
D-50677 Cologne
GermanyTelephone: +49 (221) 270 5770
Facsimile: +49 (221) 27057710
http://www.freischem.eu
Legalese and Disclaimer
You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

How the Patent Office is Intent on Killing Innovation in India?

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for t...

published: 23 Sep 2015

The Patent Office

published: 13 Jan 2017

Family Guy - "Albert Einstein worked for the patent office"

From the episode "The king is dead".
All copyrights belong to more talented people.

published: 17 Jan 2016

USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office - US Patent Office #rolfclaessen

USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen #rolfclaessen
I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first o...

published: 21 Jan 2016

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The Patent Office and China:130 Years of Advocacy and Engagement

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO Chi...

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen
My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition agains...

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How the Patent Office is Intent on Killing Innovation in India?

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted...

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for the Open Invention Network and a member of the Ispirits expert group on software patents, to discuss the issue of software patenting, the effects this can have on society, as well as the specific guidelines issues by the IPO.

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for the Open Invention Network and a member of the Ispirits expert group on software patents, to discuss the issue of software patenting, the effects this can have on society, as well as the specific guidelines issues by the IPO.

USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen #rolfclaessen
I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first official Patent Office in the US – more than 50 years after the first patent was handsigned by then president George Washington in 1790. Today, the USPTO has over 12,000 employees and receives over 600,000 patent applications and more than 500,000 trademark applications each year.
http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOFY15PAR.pdf
So, what can you do on the website:
You can search for patents: you hover over "Patents", then click on "Patent Search", and then you click on "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
If you choose "Basic Search", you can choose the field, e.g. "Inventor Name", type in any name and then get a list of all patents, where this person was inventor. Make sure to use a semicolon between the last and the first name.
You can search for trademarks: you hover over "Trademarks" and then click on "Searching Trademarks". Then you click on the link "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)". In the basic search you can enter any trademark name and it will show you all trademarks with that name:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
You can inspect the online file, i.e. the whole correspondence between the USPTO and the applicants by searching for a trademark as described above and then clicking on TSDR or directly going to
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/check-status-view-documents
The same can be done for patents here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
You can file patents online here
http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/about-efs-web
And you can file trademarks online here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-online
However, I strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a patent attorney or trademark attorney to help you with filing these IP rights.
Related channels: USPTOvideo, EPOfilms
ContactRolf Claessen at http://www.freischem.eu
Keywords: US Patent Office, PatentsTrademarksPatent AttorneyIntellectual PropertyHowtoTutorialPatentTrademarkUSPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office Search Patents Patent SearchSearch Trademarks Trademark SearchUSPTO Patent USPTO Trademark USPTO Patent Search USPTO Trademark Search Filing Patents Online Filing Trademarks Online How to File Patents Online#9How to File Trademarks Online How to Search for US Patents How to Search for US Trademarks#1Rolf Claessen USPTOvideo
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You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
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I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first official Patent Office in the US – more than 50 years after the first patent was handsigned by then president George Washington in 1790. Today, the USPTO has over 12,000 employees and receives over 600,000 patent applications and more than 500,000 trademark applications each year.
http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOFY15PAR.pdf
So, what can you do on the website:
You can search for patents: you hover over "Patents", then click on "Patent Search", and then you click on "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
If you choose "Basic Search", you can choose the field, e.g. "Inventor Name", type in any name and then get a list of all patents, where this person was inventor. Make sure to use a semicolon between the last and the first name.
You can search for trademarks: you hover over "Trademarks" and then click on "Searching Trademarks". Then you click on the link "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)". In the basic search you can enter any trademark name and it will show you all trademarks with that name:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
You can inspect the online file, i.e. the whole correspondence between the USPTO and the applicants by searching for a trademark as described above and then clicking on TSDR or directly going to
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/check-status-view-documents
The same can be done for patents here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
You can file patents online here
http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/about-efs-web
And you can file trademarks online here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-online
However, I strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a patent attorney or trademark attorney to help you with filing these IP rights.
Related channels: USPTOvideo, EPOfilms
ContactRolf Claessen at http://www.freischem.eu
Keywords: US Patent Office, PatentsTrademarksPatent AttorneyIntellectual PropertyHowtoTutorialPatentTrademarkUSPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office Search Patents Patent SearchSearch Trademarks Trademark SearchUSPTO Patent USPTO Trademark USPTO Patent Search USPTO Trademark Search Filing Patents Online Filing Trademarks Online How to File Patents Online#9How to File Trademarks Online How to Search for US Patents How to Search for US Trademarks#1Rolf Claessen USPTOvideo
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You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
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This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
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My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition against European Patents is the least expensive way to attack granted European Patents. The alternative – if you miss the 9 month deadline after mention of the grant – would be to file nullity actions in all countries, where the patent has been granted.
When filing the opposition, the patent and the opponent must be clearly identified. Also the grounds for the opposition must be given and should be as detailed as possible. The grounds for opposition could be:
- unallowable amendments,
- lack of disclosure,
- lack of novelty,
- lack of inventive step,
- lack of industrial applicability, and
- exceptions from patentability.
After the opposition has been filed, the patent proprietor gets a chance to submit his arguments typically within 4 months and then the opposition division will send a summons to oral proceedings including a preliminary opinion. The date for oral proceedings is typically scheduled within a year of the original filing of the opposition and the parties get another chance to submit arguments one month before oral proceedings. Parties sometimes submit additional arguments especially before the summons to oral proceedings. However, in my opinion and experience, this only delays the proceedings and does not really help the end result.
As mentioned in the beginning, I have downloaded the details of over 10.000 opposition proceedings into a database and analyzed these oppositions. I will go into more details in future videos, but some interesting findings for you here in this video:
If the priority country is Japan, the patent is revoked in 32% of all cases. If the priority country is the US, the patent is revoked in 40% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is up to 10, the opposition is rejected in 22 to 23% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is larger than 20, the opposition is rejected only in 14% of all cases. If there are more than 20 claims, the opposition is rejected only in 17% of all cases – a lot of claims do not seem to help.
If you are new to this channel and want to learn more about patents, trademarks and designs, please subscribe to my channel. If you found this video helpful, please hit like. Leave your comments and questions below this video. And – as always – protect your intellectual property and go make it count!
About Rolf Claessen
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany in many technical fields.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of NanoscaleScience and Engineering as well as the ChemistryDepartment, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights. His expertise in patent prosecution encompasses a deep understanding of patent law, prior art searches, prosecuting patent applications, patent drafting, opposition and defending against competitors. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
Contact Rolf at
Dr. Rolf Claessen
Patent Attorneys Freischem
Salierring 47 - 53 (12th floor)
D-50677 Cologne
GermanyTelephone: +49 (221) 270 5770
Facsimile: +49 (221) 27057710
http://www.freischem.eu
Legalese and Disclaimer
You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen
My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition against European Patents is the least expensive way to attack granted European Patents. The alternative – if you miss the 9 month deadline after mention of the grant – would be to file nullity actions in all countries, where the patent has been granted.
When filing the opposition, the patent and the opponent must be clearly identified. Also the grounds for the opposition must be given and should be as detailed as possible. The grounds for opposition could be:
- unallowable amendments,
- lack of disclosure,
- lack of novelty,
- lack of inventive step,
- lack of industrial applicability, and
- exceptions from patentability.
After the opposition has been filed, the patent proprietor gets a chance to submit his arguments typically within 4 months and then the opposition division will send a summons to oral proceedings including a preliminary opinion. The date for oral proceedings is typically scheduled within a year of the original filing of the opposition and the parties get another chance to submit arguments one month before oral proceedings. Parties sometimes submit additional arguments especially before the summons to oral proceedings. However, in my opinion and experience, this only delays the proceedings and does not really help the end result.
As mentioned in the beginning, I have downloaded the details of over 10.000 opposition proceedings into a database and analyzed these oppositions. I will go into more details in future videos, but some interesting findings for you here in this video:
If the priority country is Japan, the patent is revoked in 32% of all cases. If the priority country is the US, the patent is revoked in 40% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is up to 10, the opposition is rejected in 22 to 23% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is larger than 20, the opposition is rejected only in 14% of all cases. If there are more than 20 claims, the opposition is rejected only in 17% of all cases – a lot of claims do not seem to help.
If you are new to this channel and want to learn more about patents, trademarks and designs, please subscribe to my channel. If you found this video helpful, please hit like. Leave your comments and questions below this video. And – as always – protect your intellectual property and go make it count!
About Rolf Claessen
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany in many technical fields.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of NanoscaleScience and Engineering as well as the ChemistryDepartment, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights. His expertise in patent prosecution encompasses a deep understanding of patent law, prior art searches, prosecuting patent applications, patent drafting, opposition and defending against competitors. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
Contact Rolf at
Dr. Rolf Claessen
Patent Attorneys Freischem
Salierring 47 - 53 (12th floor)
D-50677 Cologne
GermanyTelephone: +49 (221) 270 5770
Facsimile: +49 (221) 27057710
http://www.freischem.eu
Legalese and Disclaimer
You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

How the Patent Office is Intent on Killing Innovation in India?

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for t...

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From the episode "The king is dead".
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USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
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I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
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published: 21 Jan 2016

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The Patent Office and China:130 Years of Advocacy and Engagement

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO Chi...

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen
My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition agains...

Albert Einstein - Patent Office

How the Patent Office is Intent on Killing Innovation in India?

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted...

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for the Open Invention Network and a member of the Ispirits expert group on software patents, to discuss the issue of software patenting, the effects this can have on society, as well as the specific guidelines issues by the IPO.

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for the Open Invention Network and a member of the Ispirits expert group on software patents, to discuss the issue of software patenting, the effects this can have on society, as well as the specific guidelines issues by the IPO.

USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
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I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first official Patent Office in the US – more than 50 years after the first patent was handsigned by then president George Washington in 1790. Today, the USPTO has over 12,000 employees and receives over 600,000 patent applications and more than 500,000 trademark applications each year.
http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOFY15PAR.pdf
So, what can you do on the website:
You can search for patents: you hover over "Patents", then click on "Patent Search", and then you click on "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
If you choose "Basic Search", you can choose the field, e.g. "Inventor Name", type in any name and then get a list of all patents, where this person was inventor. Make sure to use a semicolon between the last and the first name.
You can search for trademarks: you hover over "Trademarks" and then click on "Searching Trademarks". Then you click on the link "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)". In the basic search you can enter any trademark name and it will show you all trademarks with that name:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
You can inspect the online file, i.e. the whole correspondence between the USPTO and the applicants by searching for a trademark as described above and then clicking on TSDR or directly going to
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/check-status-view-documents
The same can be done for patents here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
You can file patents online here
http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/about-efs-web
And you can file trademarks online here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-online
However, I strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a patent attorney or trademark attorney to help you with filing these IP rights.
Related channels: USPTOvideo, EPOfilms
ContactRolf Claessen at http://www.freischem.eu
Keywords: US Patent Office, PatentsTrademarksPatent AttorneyIntellectual PropertyHowtoTutorialPatentTrademarkUSPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office Search Patents Patent SearchSearch Trademarks Trademark SearchUSPTO Patent USPTO Trademark USPTO Patent Search USPTO Trademark Search Filing Patents Online Filing Trademarks Online How to File Patents Online#9How to File Trademarks Online How to Search for US Patents How to Search for US Trademarks#1Rolf Claessen USPTOvideo
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You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen #rolfclaessen
I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first official Patent Office in the US – more than 50 years after the first patent was handsigned by then president George Washington in 1790. Today, the USPTO has over 12,000 employees and receives over 600,000 patent applications and more than 500,000 trademark applications each year.
http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOFY15PAR.pdf
So, what can you do on the website:
You can search for patents: you hover over "Patents", then click on "Patent Search", and then you click on "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
If you choose "Basic Search", you can choose the field, e.g. "Inventor Name", type in any name and then get a list of all patents, where this person was inventor. Make sure to use a semicolon between the last and the first name.
You can search for trademarks: you hover over "Trademarks" and then click on "Searching Trademarks". Then you click on the link "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)". In the basic search you can enter any trademark name and it will show you all trademarks with that name:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
You can inspect the online file, i.e. the whole correspondence between the USPTO and the applicants by searching for a trademark as described above and then clicking on TSDR or directly going to
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/check-status-view-documents
The same can be done for patents here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
You can file patents online here
http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/about-efs-web
And you can file trademarks online here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-online
However, I strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a patent attorney or trademark attorney to help you with filing these IP rights.
Related channels: USPTOvideo, EPOfilms
ContactRolf Claessen at http://www.freischem.eu
Keywords: US Patent Office, PatentsTrademarksPatent AttorneyIntellectual PropertyHowtoTutorialPatentTrademarkUSPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office Search Patents Patent SearchSearch Trademarks Trademark SearchUSPTO Patent USPTO Trademark USPTO Patent Search USPTO Trademark Search Filing Patents Online Filing Trademarks Online How to File Patents Online#9How to File Trademarks Online How to Search for US Patents How to Search for US Trademarks#1Rolf Claessen USPTOvideo
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You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
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This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
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My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition against European Patents is the least expensive way to attack granted European Patents. The alternative – if you miss the 9 month deadline after mention of the grant – would be to file nullity actions in all countries, where the patent has been granted.
When filing the opposition, the patent and the opponent must be clearly identified. Also the grounds for the opposition must be given and should be as detailed as possible. The grounds for opposition could be:
- unallowable amendments,
- lack of disclosure,
- lack of novelty,
- lack of inventive step,
- lack of industrial applicability, and
- exceptions from patentability.
After the opposition has been filed, the patent proprietor gets a chance to submit his arguments typically within 4 months and then the opposition division will send a summons to oral proceedings including a preliminary opinion. The date for oral proceedings is typically scheduled within a year of the original filing of the opposition and the parties get another chance to submit arguments one month before oral proceedings. Parties sometimes submit additional arguments especially before the summons to oral proceedings. However, in my opinion and experience, this only delays the proceedings and does not really help the end result.
As mentioned in the beginning, I have downloaded the details of over 10.000 opposition proceedings into a database and analyzed these oppositions. I will go into more details in future videos, but some interesting findings for you here in this video:
If the priority country is Japan, the patent is revoked in 32% of all cases. If the priority country is the US, the patent is revoked in 40% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is up to 10, the opposition is rejected in 22 to 23% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is larger than 20, the opposition is rejected only in 14% of all cases. If there are more than 20 claims, the opposition is rejected only in 17% of all cases – a lot of claims do not seem to help.
If you are new to this channel and want to learn more about patents, trademarks and designs, please subscribe to my channel. If you found this video helpful, please hit like. Leave your comments and questions below this video. And – as always – protect your intellectual property and go make it count!
About Rolf Claessen
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany in many technical fields.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of NanoscaleScience and Engineering as well as the ChemistryDepartment, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights. His expertise in patent prosecution encompasses a deep understanding of patent law, prior art searches, prosecuting patent applications, patent drafting, opposition and defending against competitors. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
Contact Rolf at
Dr. Rolf Claessen
Patent Attorneys Freischem
Salierring 47 - 53 (12th floor)
D-50677 Cologne
GermanyTelephone: +49 (221) 270 5770
Facsimile: +49 (221) 27057710
http://www.freischem.eu
Legalese and Disclaimer
You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen
My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition against European Patents is the least expensive way to attack granted European Patents. The alternative – if you miss the 9 month deadline after mention of the grant – would be to file nullity actions in all countries, where the patent has been granted.
When filing the opposition, the patent and the opponent must be clearly identified. Also the grounds for the opposition must be given and should be as detailed as possible. The grounds for opposition could be:
- unallowable amendments,
- lack of disclosure,
- lack of novelty,
- lack of inventive step,
- lack of industrial applicability, and
- exceptions from patentability.
After the opposition has been filed, the patent proprietor gets a chance to submit his arguments typically within 4 months and then the opposition division will send a summons to oral proceedings including a preliminary opinion. The date for oral proceedings is typically scheduled within a year of the original filing of the opposition and the parties get another chance to submit arguments one month before oral proceedings. Parties sometimes submit additional arguments especially before the summons to oral proceedings. However, in my opinion and experience, this only delays the proceedings and does not really help the end result.
As mentioned in the beginning, I have downloaded the details of over 10.000 opposition proceedings into a database and analyzed these oppositions. I will go into more details in future videos, but some interesting findings for you here in this video:
If the priority country is Japan, the patent is revoked in 32% of all cases. If the priority country is the US, the patent is revoked in 40% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is up to 10, the opposition is rejected in 22 to 23% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is larger than 20, the opposition is rejected only in 14% of all cases. If there are more than 20 claims, the opposition is rejected only in 17% of all cases – a lot of claims do not seem to help.
If you are new to this channel and want to learn more about patents, trademarks and designs, please subscribe to my channel. If you found this video helpful, please hit like. Leave your comments and questions below this video. And – as always – protect your intellectual property and go make it count!
About Rolf Claessen
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany in many technical fields.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of NanoscaleScience and Engineering as well as the ChemistryDepartment, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights. His expertise in patent prosecution encompasses a deep understanding of patent law, prior art searches, prosecuting patent applications, patent drafting, opposition and defending against competitors. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
Contact Rolf at
Dr. Rolf Claessen
Patent Attorneys Freischem
Salierring 47 - 53 (12th floor)
D-50677 Cologne
GermanyTelephone: +49 (221) 270 5770
Facsimile: +49 (221) 27057710
http://www.freischem.eu
Legalese and Disclaimer
You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

The Patent Office and China:130 Years of Advocacy and Engagement

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO Chi...

published: 16 Feb 2016

The Process of Patent Application Examination at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

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The Process of Patent Application Examination at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

How the Patent Office is Intent on Killing Innovation in India?

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for the Open Invention Network and a member of the Ispirits expert group on software patents, to discuss the issue of software patenting, the effects this can have on society, as well as the specific guidelines issues by the IPO.

USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office - US Patent Office #rolfclaessen

USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
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I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first official Patent Office in the US – more than 50 years after the first patent was handsigned by then president George Washington in 1790. Today, the USPTO has over 12,000 employees and receives over 600,000 patent applications and more than 500,000 trademark applications each year.
http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOFY15PAR.pdf
So, what can you do on the website:
You can search for patents: you hover over "Patents", then click on "Patent Search", and then you click on "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
If you choose "Basic Search", you can choose the field, e.g. "Inventor Name", type in any name and then get a list of all patents, where this person was inventor. Make sure to use a semicolon between the last and the first name.
You can search for trademarks: you hover over "Trademarks" and then click on "Searching Trademarks". Then you click on the link "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)". In the basic search you can enter any trademark name and it will show you all trademarks with that name:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
You can inspect the online file, i.e. the whole correspondence between the USPTO and the applicants by searching for a trademark as described above and then clicking on TSDR or directly going to
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/check-status-view-documents
The same can be done for patents here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
You can file patents online here
http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/about-efs-web
And you can file trademarks online here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-online
However, I strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a patent attorney or trademark attorney to help you with filing these IP rights.
Related channels: USPTOvideo, EPOfilms
ContactRolf Claessen at http://www.freischem.eu
Keywords: US Patent Office, PatentsTrademarksPatent AttorneyIntellectual PropertyHowtoTutorialPatentTrademarkUSPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office Search Patents Patent SearchSearch Trademarks Trademark SearchUSPTO Patent USPTO Trademark USPTO Patent Search USPTO Trademark Search Filing Patents Online Filing Trademarks Online How to File Patents Online#9How to File Trademarks Online How to Search for US Patents How to Search for US Trademarks#1Rolf Claessen USPTOvideo
Legalese and Disclaimer
You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

The Patent Office and China:130 Years of Advocacy and Engagement

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen
My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition against European Patents is the least expensive way to attack granted European Patents. The alternative – if you miss the 9 month deadline after mention of the grant – would be to file nullity actions in all countries, where the patent has been granted.
When filing the opposition, the patent and the opponent must be clearly identified. Also the grounds for the opposition must be given and should be as detailed as possible. The grounds for opposition could be:
- unallowable amendments,
- lack of disclosure,
- lack of novelty,
- lack of inventive step,
- lack of industrial applicability, and
- exceptions from patentability.
After the opposition has been filed, the patent proprietor gets a chance to submit his arguments typically within 4 months and then the opposition division will send a summons to oral proceedings including a preliminary opinion. The date for oral proceedings is typically scheduled within a year of the original filing of the opposition and the parties get another chance to submit arguments one month before oral proceedings. Parties sometimes submit additional arguments especially before the summons to oral proceedings. However, in my opinion and experience, this only delays the proceedings and does not really help the end result.
As mentioned in the beginning, I have downloaded the details of over 10.000 opposition proceedings into a database and analyzed these oppositions. I will go into more details in future videos, but some interesting findings for you here in this video:
If the priority country is Japan, the patent is revoked in 32% of all cases. If the priority country is the US, the patent is revoked in 40% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is up to 10, the opposition is rejected in 22 to 23% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is larger than 20, the opposition is rejected only in 14% of all cases. If there are more than 20 claims, the opposition is rejected only in 17% of all cases – a lot of claims do not seem to help.
If you are new to this channel and want to learn more about patents, trademarks and designs, please subscribe to my channel. If you found this video helpful, please hit like. Leave your comments and questions below this video. And – as always – protect your intellectual property and go make it count!
About Rolf Claessen
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany in many technical fields.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of NanoscaleScience and Engineering as well as the ChemistryDepartment, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights. His expertise in patent prosecution encompasses a deep understanding of patent law, prior art searches, prosecuting patent applications, patent drafting, opposition and defending against competitors. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
Contact Rolf at
Dr. Rolf Claessen
Patent Attorneys Freischem
Salierring 47 - 53 (12th floor)
D-50677 Cologne
GermanyTelephone: +49 (221) 270 5770
Facsimile: +49 (221) 27057710
http://www.freischem.eu
Legalese and Disclaimer
You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

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How the Patent Office is Intent on Killing Innovation in India?

The issue of innovation is one that is constantly being talked about by our government and indeed the private sector. Indeed Prime Minister Modi has been quoted as saying that innovation is the key driver of growth. One of the issues at the core of the debate about how to best ensure innovation is regarding access to knowledge and the role played by intellectual property regimes in restricting access to information.
In late August, 2015, the Indian Patent Office released a new set of guidelines on the examination of computer related inventions. These, guidelines have the effect of enlarging the scope of patents for software, mathematical models and business methods – thereby restricting the scope of innovation for programmers.
Newsclick interviews VenkateshHariharan, Outreach lead for the Open Invention Network and a member of the Ispirits expert group on software patents, to discuss the issue of software patenting, the effects this can have on society, as well as the specific guidelines issues by the IPO.

USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office - US Patent Office #rolfclaessen

USPTO - What is the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office?
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rolfclaessen #rolfclaessen
I will give you a brief overview and then show you how to search for patents and trademarks, how you can inspect the online files – all the correspondence with the USPTO for each published patent and trademark – and how to file patents and trademarks online.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is located in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington D.C. and is an agency of the U.S.Department of Commerce. Inventors and companies can protect their intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks and designs by filing the corresponding application with the USPTO.
http://www.uspto.gov/
The Patent Act of 1836 created the first official Patent Office in the US – more than 50 years after the first patent was handsigned by then president George Washington in 1790. Today, the USPTO has over 12,000 employees and receives over 600,000 patent applications and more than 500,000 trademark applications each year.
http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOFY15PAR.pdf
So, what can you do on the website:
You can search for patents: you hover over "Patents", then click on "Patent Search", and then you click on "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
If you choose "Basic Search", you can choose the field, e.g. "Inventor Name", type in any name and then get a list of all patents, where this person was inventor. Make sure to use a semicolon between the last and the first name.
You can search for trademarks: you hover over "Trademarks" and then click on "Searching Trademarks". Then you click on the link "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)". In the basic search you can enter any trademark name and it will show you all trademarks with that name:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
You can inspect the online file, i.e. the whole correspondence between the USPTO and the applicants by searching for a trademark as described above and then clicking on TSDR or directly going to
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/check-status-view-documents
The same can be done for patents here:
http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
You can file patents online here
http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/about-efs-web
And you can file trademarks online here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-online
However, I strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a patent attorney or trademark attorney to help you with filing these IP rights.
Related channels: USPTOvideo, EPOfilms
ContactRolf Claessen at http://www.freischem.eu
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You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

The Patent Office and China:130 Years of Advocacy and Engagement

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

This video is about the opposition procedure before the European Patent Office #patent #rolfclaessen
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My name isRolf Claessen, I am partner of FREISCHEM & Partner and in this video I explain the opposition procedure against granted European Patents before the European Patent Office. I have now defended and attacked many patent before the European Patent Office and I recently analyzed over 10.000 opposition procedures and looked at parameters like the length of the claims, length of the description, number of the cited documents in the search, nationality of the applicants and representatives and much more. I will give you an overview in this video and will go into more detail in following videos.
Opposition against European Patents is the least expensive way to attack granted European Patents. The alternative – if you miss the 9 month deadline after mention of the grant – would be to file nullity actions in all countries, where the patent has been granted.
When filing the opposition, the patent and the opponent must be clearly identified. Also the grounds for the opposition must be given and should be as detailed as possible. The grounds for opposition could be:
- unallowable amendments,
- lack of disclosure,
- lack of novelty,
- lack of inventive step,
- lack of industrial applicability, and
- exceptions from patentability.
After the opposition has been filed, the patent proprietor gets a chance to submit his arguments typically within 4 months and then the opposition division will send a summons to oral proceedings including a preliminary opinion. The date for oral proceedings is typically scheduled within a year of the original filing of the opposition and the parties get another chance to submit arguments one month before oral proceedings. Parties sometimes submit additional arguments especially before the summons to oral proceedings. However, in my opinion and experience, this only delays the proceedings and does not really help the end result.
As mentioned in the beginning, I have downloaded the details of over 10.000 opposition proceedings into a database and analyzed these oppositions. I will go into more details in future videos, but some interesting findings for you here in this video:
If the priority country is Japan, the patent is revoked in 32% of all cases. If the priority country is the US, the patent is revoked in 40% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is up to 10, the opposition is rejected in 22 to 23% of all cases. If the size of the patent family is larger than 20, the opposition is rejected only in 14% of all cases. If there are more than 20 claims, the opposition is rejected only in 17% of all cases – a lot of claims do not seem to help.
If you are new to this channel and want to learn more about patents, trademarks and designs, please subscribe to my channel. If you found this video helpful, please hit like. Leave your comments and questions below this video. And – as always – protect your intellectual property and go make it count!
About Rolf Claessen
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany in many technical fields.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of NanoscaleScience and Engineering as well as the ChemistryDepartment, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights. His expertise in patent prosecution encompasses a deep understanding of patent law, prior art searches, prosecuting patent applications, patent drafting, opposition and defending against competitors. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
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You have been watching a video by Rolf Claessen. The views expressed by the participants of this program are their own and do not represent the views of nor are they endorsed by their respective law firms. None of the content should be considered legal advice. This video should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents of this video are intended for general informational purposes only and you are urged to consult your own patent attorney on any specific legal questions. As always, consult a patent attorney.

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The Patent Office and China:130 Years of Advocacy and Engagement

Speakers:
Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, China, USPTOElaine Wu, Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs, USPTO
Learn about USPTO’s China team and the work they do to serve as a resource and leader on Intellectual Property (IP) issues concerning China. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Wu discuss:
- The evolution of patent law and the patent office in China;
- China’s innovation policies and how they affect the patent system;
- Conventional and cutting-edge patent and IP problems that our right holders continue to confront in China and their effect on US right holders;
- Various IP dialogues between the US and China and other means to improve the patent protection and enforcement environment in China for the benefit of US rights holders; and
- The cooperative bilateral relationship the USPTO China team has formed with the patent office in China to solve these complex issues.
About the Speakers
Mark Allen Cohen is Senior Counsel, China for the USPTO. Mr. Cohen leads a China team at USPTO consisting of nearly 20 individuals in DC, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China on all aspects of USPTO’s activities in greater China. One of his current projects involves setting up a China IPRResourceCenter at the USPTO to help support more empirical analysis of China’s IPR environment. In total, he has 30 years private, public sector, in-house and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a principle focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has worked extensively on realigning public or corporate resources to meet the changing demands of China’s intellectual property environment.
Elaine T.L. Wu is an attorney in the Office of Policy and External Affairs at the USPTO. In that capacity, Ms. Wu is responsible for providing legal and technical assistance to foreign governments to assist them in complying with their international intellectual property law obligations, analyzing U.S. legislative proposals and participating in the development and implementation of changes to the patent laws, developing U.S. positions in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies on intellectual property for international multilateral and bilateral agreements, and negotiating various patent law related issues with foreign governments, on behalf of the U.S. government. Ms. Wu has specific expertise and knowledge about the patent, trademark, copyright and enforcement systems in China and Southeast Asia.

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